Hi all,
a lot has been going on here while I kept posting to the users list. I
would like to copy my last post there since it addresses some of the
points touched in this thread.
Besides that I think that a neat simplification would be to provide
just a combo of base+start+cont+end paragraph styles with clarified
semantics. As its goal is completely orthogonal to list styles this
combo can be applied in many places independently of the local list
style. If the user prefers to connect the paragraph styles to a
specific list style to avoid selecting both styles (paragraph plus
list) each time, or because she really needs a different paragraph
style for this specific list style, then she could replicate the
paragraph styles at will. This way the double hierarchy is avoided and
40 paragraph styles become just 4. IMHO the complexity of having
base+start+cont+end as a starting point is much more manageable that
the complexity resulting of an overwhelming number of styles plus
wrong semantics suggested by unrelated indentation default settings.
Moreover, if the semantics is base: "simple list with one paragraph
style" and start+cont+end: "complex list with different spacing
settings" the user has always the option to keep it simple and use
just the base paragraph style (say "List" or "Numbering"... but not
both, according to the above, neither "List 2" or "Numbering 3").
Below is my previous post from the users list.
Best regards